Make a Bunch of Friends in a Beautiful Place

Costa Rica had the highest score for life satisfaction among the 123 countries that were represented, even though its GDP is in the world’s lowest third. The single leading factor determining people’s happiness there was a strong social support network.

A new study that basically just studied a bunch of other studies about happiness, has found that having good friends and neighbors and schooling and choices and a pretty view and good dirt are all way more important than money. The eternal question: how many of those things can you buy?